Une chance sur deux | |
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Directed by | Patrice Leconte |
Written by | Patrick Dewolf, Serge Frydman and Patrice Leconte |
Produced by | Christian Fechner |
Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis |
Cinematography | Steven Poster |
Edited by | Joëlle Hache |
Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
Distributed by | UGC Fox Distribution |
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Running time | 110 min |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | €22,17 million [1] |
Box office | 1,056,810 admissions (France) [2] |
Une chance sur deux is a French film directed by Patrice Leconte, released in 1998, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon and Vanessa Paradis.
Alice (Vanessa Paradis) leaves prison after having served an eight-month sentence for car theft. Her mother, who has just died, leaves her a cassette on which she admits to the mystery of her birth. Alice has never known her father. Twenty years before, her mother had loved two men (Belmondo, Delon). One of them is, unknowingly, her father. Alice goes off to find the two, but before discovering which is her father she gets them involved in an adventure.
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